My ipod is having an identity crisis

The other day, I hooked my ipod to a friend's computer, and it recognized it as being his, not mine. Now it says that I have all of his music on the actual ipod itself, but can't play anything, because I don't. I am puzzled entirely as to fix this issue. I have a 2 gig nano, and he has a 30 gig video. Any help?

Well first off you want to make sure your ipod is enabled for manual management before you hook it up to any other computer. As far as it saying it has the music without it actually being there im puzzled, sorry to say but your probably going to have to restore, but if all of your music is in your itunes its no biggie, just wipe it and resync and you'll be back to normal.

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